When your organization does business with nearly 5,000 suppliers, the invoice process can be chaotic. Invoices arrive in many ways with different formats, such as standard invoices, PO invoices, Utility invoices, and Check Requests. Learn Sets can improve and automate the WFR verification process. National Express, the second largest School Bus company in the nation,…

Application continuity, a relatively little-known feature of Oracle Database 12c, has huge potential to solve one of the major issues with high availability in Oracle RAC: failover with in-flight transactions. In the presenter's experience, the existing TAF/FAN functionality can work in theory, but the level of application support required to track state makes a full…

The 4 top trends in technology right now are mobile, in-memory, cloud, and big data but the one that can add the most immediate business benefit is big data. Do you want to know, "what does big data actually mean?"  We'll define it then get to a much more important question: how can I actually…

In this hands-on lab, you will learn about new ways to upgrade, migrate, and consolidate databases in Oracle Database 12c. Specifically, you will; Upgrade a database to 12c, using the new command-line parallel upgrade script; Plug that database into an Oracle Database 12c container database as a pluggable database (PDB); Migrate a second database to…

Original Broadcast: February 24, 2015 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. CDT Oracle’s revolutionary Software in Silicon technology extends the design philosophy of engineered systems to the chip. Co-engineered by Oracle’s software and microprocessor engineers, Software in Silicon implements accelerators directly in the processor to deliver a rich feature-set that enables quick development of databases and…

Interactive Reports have undergone major changes in APEX 5.0, bringing big new features and significant changes behind the scenes, changes that impact all interactive reports. This session introduces the APEX 5 new features, then takes a deep dive into the structural and code changes behind the scenes that make these improvements possible,  Understanding these changes…

Oracle Databases are a target of cyber attacks by hackers looking to obtain sensitive data such as credit card numbers and personally identifiable information used in identify theft.  Even though databases are not externally accessible, they are still a target as most cyber attacks penetrate the network perimeter and look for high value targets within…

Big Data insight is getting tremendous attention across all organizations but data mining and analytics are not new methodology. This presentation emphasizes on how big data technologies are helping data discovery and turning information and knowledge into wisdom. This presentation will not only help understand different types of analytic techniques using examples but also explain…

This presentation will look at which 12c new features should be investigated for use.  Most of the features that will be covered will be related to the DBA, but there will also be a few outside that realm that focus on the developer.  There will be simple examples (such as a quick example using pluggable…

Learn the secrets of the trade to rapidly provisioning Linux, Oracle Clusters (Grid Infrastructure) and RAC and Single Instance Databases in minutes.  After attending this session, you will look like a magician with your colleagues as you will learn the backend nitty gritty of provisioning Linux-As-A-Service, RAC-As-A-Service, and Database-As-A-Service,  Advanced techniques to deploy enterprise RAC…